Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ross Hunter produced The Thrill of It All, and it has all those little Ross Hunter touches-coy tingles over connubial sex ("Is it your wife's birthday tonight?" "No, but it may be somebody's"), wise-apple kiddies ("Daddy, Mommy's down in the cellar with a man"). But one thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going...
...trimmings have not turned the show into an extravaganza, which is what would have resulted if all of Shaw's directions had been followed exactly. Even if these excessive directions were an intentional part of his parody, it is wise to modify them; otherwise no Caesar--not even the real one--could survive amid the morass of spectacle...
...literature, and also indigenous creativity that does not-necessarily hue to the line of socialist realism. Again, the Party's policies are dictated primarily by political considerations. When Premier Khurshchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for more intellectual freedom was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily squashed the dissident voices...
...seemed increasingly likely that a test ban agreement would be reached in Moscow. Even so, in the larger picture of East-West relations-considering the deep, deadly philosophical differences between democracy and Communism-a test ban would be a far from conclusive step. It was still wise to remember Demosthenes' advice about the importance of skepticism...
...world of U.S. foundations is losing its wise, undisputed dean: Henry Allen Moe, 69, boss of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the past 37 years. A Rhodes scholar and an Oxford-trained lawyer, Minnesotan Moe gave "Guggie" fellowships the status of a U.S. intellectual knighthood, personally knighted some 5,000 artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly...